Agoda

Bangkok is great. The multi-cultured environment is fun.

Stay away! No, seriously! This is not a place for talented people, and juniors joining are basically ruined by learning worse practices.

Here, it's all about emails, meetings, and micropolitics.

I worked here for over a year, coming from a strong technical and innovative background, to find a bad working culture, bureaucracy, tribalism, and code monkeys. Development is practically stopped due to bad management decisions and daily production issues.

The salary differences are just a disgrace. Local, decent, hardworking developers are paid peanuts, while great innovations are intercepted by young and ambitious mid-level US managers and product owners, recruited by their fellows to basically take the credit while doing politics and waiting for the yearly bonus. Some of the mid-management are stuck here for a few years, probably afraid to go back to the market – and for a good reason. Agoda is a bad line on your CV, assuming you're coming from a western IT market. Believe me, I have to find a lot of excuses while interviewing now.

Sad to see a company built by the hands of the great CEO Robert Rosenstein becoming a swamp full of day-job opportunists working hard on failing the employees!

You're fired!